The Senate leadership is trying to find floor time next...
The Senate leadership is trying to find floor time next week for Republicans’ resolution against the FCC net neutrality order, a senior Senate aide said. A “hotline” was running Thursday in the Senate to get an agreement from all senators…
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on the exact time, the aide said. The Senate is “hopefully set next week to vote” on killing the FCC net neutrality order, Commerce Committee Ranking Member Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said at a press conference Thursday about Republican senators’ efforts to create jobs. Under the Congressional Review Act procedure, Hutchison has enough signatures to skip the Commerce Committee and force a floor vote on SJ Res 6 (CD Nov 3 p12). “With such an arbitrary standard” as the FCC net neutrality order, “companies are going to be forced to err on the side of caution,” Hutchison said. “Forcing broadband companies to say, ‘Mother may I?’ to the federal government is going to delay the implementation of the new products and services getting to the market; it’s going to increase costs to consumers.”